Connaught Landing

What's it all about? With no interactive content on site to enlighten you, it's off to the Interweb to see if we can glean any information.

It would seem that the Duke of Connaught landed here (as the name teasingly suggests), but why? According to this site one of his duties on 23 September 1905 was to unveil the Boer War Memorial in St.Julian's Avenue...